battery

US: /ˈbætɝi/
UK: /bˈætəɹi/


English Vietnamese dictionary


battery /'bætəri/
  • danh từ
    • (quân sự) khẩu đội (pháo)
    • (điện học) bộ pin, ắc quy
    • bộ
      • cooking battery: bộ đồ xoong chảo
    • dãy chuồng nuôi gà nhốt
      • battery chicken: gà nhốt vỗ béo
    • (pháp lý) sự hành hung, sự bạo hành
    • to turn someone's battery against himself
      • lấy gậy ông đập lưng ông

Advanced English dictionary


+ noun (plural batteries)
1 [C] a device that is placed inside a car engine, clock, radio, etc. and that produces the electricity that makes it work: to replace the batteries + a rechargeable battery + battery-powered / -operated + a car battery + The battery is flat (= it is no longer producing electricity).
2 [C] ~ (of sth) (written) a large number of things or people of the same type: He faced a battery of questions. + a battery of reporters
3 [C] (technical) a number of large guns that are used together
4 [C] (BrE) (often used as an adjective) a number of small cages that are joined together and are used for keeping chickens, etc. in on a farm: a battery hen + battery eggs
Compare: FREE-RANGE
5 [U] (law) the crime of attacking sb physically
see also ASSAULT AND BATTERY
Idioms see RECHARGE

Collocation dictionary


1 for electricity

ADJ.

dead, flat
The car won't start?the battery's flat.
| rechargeable | car, torch | alkaline, lithium

VERB + BATTERY

charge, recharge | change, replace | connect
Is the battery connected correctly?
| be powered by, run on, use, work on
The machine can also run on batteries.

BATTERY + VERB

give out, go dead, run down, run out
After about six hours, the battery will run down.

BATTERY + NOUN

power | life
With our product you get longer battery life.
| failure | charger

PHRASES

battery-operated, battery-powered
a small battery-powered car

2 large group of similar things

ADJ.

full, whole

PREP.

~ of
I had to answer a whole battery of questions.

PHRASES

a battery of tests


Concise English dictionary


batteries'bætərɪ
noun
+group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
+a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
+a collection of related things intended for use together
+a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher
+a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
+the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
+an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact